Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Alexander "Herb" Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist. He was best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing".[5] He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975.[6][7] Simon is the first person to win both a Turing Award and a Nobel Prize.[8]
Career
[change | change source]Simon was an important person in several modern-day scientific works such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was one of the first people to analyze the architecture of preferential attachment.[9][10]
He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001,[11] where he helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, one of the first such departments in the world.
Simon received many top-level honors in life, including becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1959.[12][13] He was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.[14]
Personal life
[change | change source]Herbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 15, 1916.[15] He studied at the University of Chicago where he earned his BA and PhD degrees.
Simon married Dorothea Pye in 1938. Their marriage lasted 63 years until his death. They had three children.
In January 2001, Simon had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen. He later died from problems caused by surgery on February 9, 2001 at the age of 84.[16]
More readings
[change | change source]- Bhargava, Alok (1997). "Editor's introduction: Analysis of data on health". Journal of Econometrics. 77: 1–4. doi:10.1016/s0304-4076(96)01803-9.
- Courtois, P.J., 1977. Decomposability: queueing and computer system applications. New York: Academic Press. Courtois was influenced by the work of Simon and Albert Ando on hierarchical nearly-decomposable systems in economic modelling as a criterion for computer systems design, and in this book he presents the mathematical theory of these nearly-decomposable systems in more detail than Simon and Ando do in their original papers.
- Frantz, R., and Marsh, L. (Eds.) (2016). Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Palgrave Macmillan.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Dorothea Simon Obituary - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette.com". Post-Gazette.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ Herbert Simon, "Autobiography", in Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969–1980, Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992.
- ↑ Forest, Joelle, "John R. Commons and Herbert A. Simon on the Concept of Rationality", Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XXXV, 3 (2001), pp. 591–605
- ↑ "Herbert Alexander Simon". AI Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "Guru: Herbert Simon". The Economist. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ↑ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978". NobelPrize.org.
- ↑ Heyck, Hunter. "Herbert A. Simon - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.
- ↑ "Former CMU Faculty Geoffrey Hinton Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics". CMU.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ↑ Simon, H. A., 1955, Biometrika 42, 425.
- ↑ B. Mandelbrot, "A Note on a Class of Skew Distribution Functions, Analysis and Critique of a Paper by H. Simon", Information and Control, 2 (1959), p. 90
- ↑ Simon, Herbert A. (1978). Assar Lindbeck (ed.). Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969–1980. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 Book of Members/ChapterS, amacad.org
- ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
- ↑ National Academy of Sciences. Nas.nasonline.org. Retrieved on September 23, 2013.
- ↑ Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America by Hunter Crowther-Heyck, (JHU 2005), page 25.
- ↑ "Herbert A. Simon Dies at 84; Won a Nobel for Economics". The New York Times. February 10, 2001.
Other websites
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- Herbert Alexander Simon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- A Tribute to Herbert A. Simon
- Full-text digital archive of Herbert Simon papers
- Mind Models online Artificial Intelligence exhibit
- pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations
- History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science BOOK VIII: Herbert Simon, Paul Thagard and Others on Discovery Systems – with free downloads for public use.
- — (December 12, 1962). "The Architecture of Complexity" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 106 (6): 467–482. JSTOR 985254. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
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